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Official title: To expand arts education, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 31, 2025 by Suzanne Bonamici · Last progress March 31, 2025
The bill would expand arts access, strengthen early-childhood and arts-focused supports, and improve data and accountability—especially benefiting underserved students and justice-involved youth—but it imposes significant costs, administrative and reporting burdens, and risks diverting limited funds and reducing local flexibility if additional funding is not provided.
Students (especially those in high-poverty, underserved, juvenile-justice, and reentry populations) would gain expanded access to sequenced arts curricula, afterschool/summer arts programs, and coordinated arts-based services that support learning, rehabilitation, and reentry.
Young children in CCDBG-funded care would benefit from provider-led training focused on social, emotional, physical, adaptive, communication, and cognitive development and on serving prioritized populations and children with disabilities, improving inclusion and early learning quality.
Teachers and school leaders would receive stronger professional development, certification pathways, and access to rigorous, peer-reviewed research on effective arts education methods, helping expand the arts educator pipeline and improve classroom instruction.
States, local districts, child care providers, and taxpayers would face higher costs and increased administrative burdens to implement expanded training, arts programs, data collection, reporting, and certification pathways.
Low-income families, children, and other service recipients risk loss of services if existing funds are reallocated to meet new training, program, or research requirements and no additional federal funding is provided.
Schools, especially small and rural districts and 21st CCLC grantees, would face increased reporting, compliance, and partnership-building burdens that could strain staff and capacity.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Adds arts education and arts-integration requirements to CCDBG, ESEA, juvenile justice, and federal education research/assessment programs and requires arts data, training, and NAEP arts assessments.
Adds arts education and arts integration requirements across federal early childhood, K–12, juvenile justice, and education research programs. The bill requires states and local education agencies to plan for, report on, and support arts instruction, teacher preparation and professional development, partnerships with arts organizations, and inclusion of arts measures in school evaluations and Federal research and assessment activities. Also requires targeted early childhood provider training on developmentally appropriate strategies (including arts integration), directs juvenile justice and reentry programs to coordinate with arts agencies and use arts-based services, and restores or maintains arts assessments in NAEP and federally supported education research on arts effectiveness.